Scotland

Edinburgh Community Backgreens Initiative - Edinburgh

ECBA is a social enterprise group seeking to reduce the CO2 emissions of households by taking up local food initiatives (allotments, CSA) and installing community composting facilities in order to reduce the household biodegradable waste deposited in landfill.

The Big Green Challenge in Twechar - East Dunbartonshire

Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association’s project seeks to deliver best practice in house design for new homes that include insulation, thermal bridges, air tightness and ventilation. They will also engage local residents to help them understand how to make their existing homes more energy efficient and see the visible impact of their energy consumption.

Comrie - The Big Green Challenge - Comrie

Comrie plans to engage the local community in low carbon activities through their work on the sustainable development of 96 acres of land, and expanding to all aspects of village life enabling the behavioural changes that will result in a reduction in Comrie’s carbon footprint. Activities will include training local tradesmen and architects in eco construction, setting up renewable energy sources for the site and village, and training local school children in food production.

Isle of Eigg - Isle of Eigg

The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust is planning to make the whole Isle carbon neutral with a range of innovative initiatives including community biodiesel use, using excess heat from island electricity generation to heat community buildings and new recycling schemes for paper and oil.

A carbon free knoydart - By mallaig

The charity Knoydart Foundation is working with 15 households currently operating on diesel powered generators to transfer to renewables.

Big Hannah and More - Glasgow

The Coach House Trust is a charity using Bokashi (EM micro-organism with photosynthetic bacteria) in order to reduce the amount of food waste and green waste going to landfill, and produce nutrient rich compost that serves as soil enrichers.

Glencanisp Redevelopment - by Lairg

Assynt Foundation, a Community Development Trust, plans to install a woodchip boiler that will reduce CO2 emissions significantly, replacing oil and electric heating with wood fuel from sustainably grown local sources. The boiler is to have sufficient maximum capacity to heat other buildings and will enable local groups and individuals to switch to sustainably grown local wood fuel.

Barra and Vatersay SEEM Project - Isle of Barra

The Barra and Vatersay community project is planning to implement revolutionary new schemes for more efficient use of resources for its Western Isle communities. Ideas include a new re-use and recycle programme and decentralised energy production.

Community Energy Scotland - Dingwall

Community Energy Scotland is a social enterprise group aiming to work closely with 30 different communities. They will analyse the carbon impact of their respective community buildings and provide ongoing support to help them reduce their energy consumption and reliance on fossil fuels, by conducting an energy audit and heat loss calculations and employing innovative energy efficiency measures.

Tarbet Conservation Initiative - Tarbert

Tarbet Conservation Initiative’s ‘Carbon Neutral Eco Flat Renovation’ project seeks to renovate homes in the community by insulating the walls with low energy materials and introducing vapour barriers, and to create a community wind turbine farm.

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